The Committee of the Cyprus Museum was established in 1882, it acted as a governing body for the newly established

Cyprus Museum The Cyprus Museum (also known as the Cyprus Archaeological Museum) is the oldest and largest archaeological museum in Cyprus, located on Museum Street in central Nicosia. The museum is home to the most extensive collection of Cypriot antiquities ...

. It has been succeeded by the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.

History

The workings of the Committee were regulated by th
Antiquities Law of 1905
According to the Law of 1905, the members of the Committee were to be elected by the private donors that funded the Committee. The Committee was abolished by the creation of the

Department of Antiquities A Department of Antiquities is a government department with responsibility for cultural heritage management, archaeological research and regulating antiquities trading in some countries. Many were established by British and French colonial admini ...

in 1934. Its funding came from the government and private donors, the government gave grants for excavations across the island. The Committee was tasked with conducting excavations throughout the island and organising the collections of the Cyprus Museum. Additionally it granted a scholarship to Menelaos Markides to study archaeology at Oxford. In 1913 the Committee gained a government grand to conduct excavations in

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, under archaeologists,

John Linton Myres Sir John Linton Myres (3 July 1869 – 6 March 1954) was a British archaeologist and academic, who conducted excavations in Cyprus during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Having been a fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford and then Ch ...

, Menelaos Markides and Leonard H. D. Buxton.

Members

The Committee was headed by the

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. Its founding members were

, Claude Delaval Cobham. Ex oficio member was the

archbishop of Cyprus The Archbishop of Cyprus (officially the Archbishop of Erdek, Nova Justiniana and All Cyprus) is the head of the Church of Cyprus. The incumbent Archbishop is George of Cyprus (archbishop of Cyprus), George of Cyprus since 2023. History Acco ...

. Other members included prominent scholars of Cypriot studies including Simos Menardos, L.Z. Pierides, Eustathios Konstantinides and his brother Pascal (Paschalis) Constantinides.

References

{{reflist Committee of the Cyprus Museum Archaeology of Cyprus 1882 establishments in Cyprus

History

Members

See also

References